Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces
Coinage and Identity in the Roman Provinces

Author: C. J. Howgego

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0199265267

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Coins were the most deliberate of all symbols of public communal identities, yet the Roman historian will look in vain for any good introduction to, or systematic treatment of, the subject. Sixteen leading international scholars have sought to address this need by producing this authoritative collection of essays, which ranges over the whole Roman world from Britain to Egypt, from 200 BC to AD 300. The subject is approached through surveys of the broad geographical and chronological structure of the evidence, through chapters which focus on ways of expressing identity, and through regional studies which place the numismatic evidence in local context.

The Numismatic Chronicle
The Numismatic Chronicle

Author: John Yonge Akerman

Publisher:

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13:

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"The rules of the Numismatic Society of London" bound with New Ser., v. 1.

Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic
Paideia: The World of the Second Sophistic

Author: Barbara E. Borg

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter

Published: 2008-08-22

Total Pages: 500

ISBN-13: 3110204711

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In the World of the Second Sophistic, education, paideia, was a crucial factor in the discourse of power. Knowledge in the fields of medicine, history, philosophy, and poetry joined with rhetorical brilliance and a presentable manner became the outward appearance of the elite of the Eastern Roman Empire. This outward appearance guaranteed a high social status as well as political and economical power for the individual and major advantages for their hometowns in interpolis competition. Since paideia was related particularly to Classical Greek antiquity, it was, at the same time, fundamental to the new self-confidence of the Greek East. This book presents, for the first time, studies from a broad range of disciplines on various fields of life and on different media, in which this ideology became manifest. These contributions show that the Sophists and their texts were only the most prominent exponents of a system of thoughts and values structuring the life of the elite in general.